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Re:Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Boug... by Mountain_Skies on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:26PM (#31450322)
Once it was broadly accepted that the 14th amendment made corporations into people, the die was cast on the creation of these types of legalistic shenanigans.
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Re:Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Boug... by couchand on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:16PM (#31451437)
I'm not sure there's legal or historical basis for that assertion?

Edit: see this comment from elsewhere in this thread with a link to a scholarly history of civil asset forfeiture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31449092

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